Book Write Up #3: Picture Book #4

Author: Ian Schoenherr

Title: Don't Spill the Beans!

Illustrator: Ian Schoenherr

Genre: Picture Book

Subgenre: Animation

Theme: It's hard to keep your birthday a secret.

Primary and secondary characters: Bear and all his friends.

Date of Publication: 2010

Publishing company: Greenwillow Books

It is bears birthday and he is trying not to tell anyone. He can not hold it in. He tries to button his lips, but he can not. He needs to share it. So he tells elephant and toucan. Then he sees auk and Kangaroo and tells them too. He then blurts it to turtle and baboon too. He alerts rabbit and raccoon. He then breaks it to bat and alerts hippo. In the end, all his friends surprise bear with a birthday party.

This is a good book for students to explain that it is hard to keep surprises from friends but that's okay.